At least four Waterloo Engineering alumni have made the impressive Forbes 30 Under 30 lists for 2023.
Sefunmi Osinaike, 27, Matthew Rose, 24, Jacqueline Hutchings, 25, and Kayli Dale, 25, are among 600 young leaders in North America who have been recognized for their bold entrepreneurial achievements in 20 categories.
Osinaike (BASc ’17, electrical engineering) co-founded Co.Lab with Helen Huang. Co.Lab is an online school that provides product managers, UX designers, and software engineers with a space for learning by doing, collaboration, community and confidence-building to help further their careers in the tech space.
Rose (BASc '21, mechatronics engineering) co-founded Ceragen with his sister Danielle Rose. The company creates ‘probiotics for plants’ to help improve plants’ abilities to absorb nutrients and withstand environmental stress to increase crop yields for farmers. Ceragan is a full-time founder company at Velocity, the University’s startup incubator.
Kayli Dale and Jacqueline Hutchings, co-founders of Friendlier.
Dale and Hutchings (both BASc ’20, chemical engineering) co-founded Friendlier, an eco-friendly solutions company that assists restaurants transition to a more sustainable, reusable packaging solution thereby reducing landfill waste. Hutchings and Dale were also the recipients of the Team Alumni Achievement Medal at this year’s Waterloo Engineering Awards.
To compile this year’s lists, Forbes writers and editors – with the help of expert independent judges – evaluated more than 12,000 candidates on factors such as funding, revenue, social impact, inventiveness and potential.